Menhdi (Hina) - History and Designs

Menhdi (Hina) - History and Designs
The art of decorating palms, arms and feet with mehndi or hena used in India, Arabia and Africa for hundreds of years. Its completely natural. It has a cooling effect. Ladies living in tropical countries love applying mehndi on their palms, arms, feet & back.
Now a days market is flooded with ready made mehndi cones. All one needs to do is just prick the mehndi cone and make hena design of your choice. Applying latest mehndi designs on festivals like Eid, Rakhi, Weddings, etc is very popular.
There are quite a few Hena color variants available like brown, dark orange, bright red and black.
Mehndi or "Mehendi" is a form of body art from Ancient India, in which decorative designs are created on a person's body, using a paste, created from the powdered dry leaves of the henna plant (Lawsonia inermis). Ancient in origin, mehndi is still a popular form of body art among the women of the Indian Subcontinent, Africa and the Middle East and a muslim tribe in the Philipines called Ilocano's.